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Profits for the nation's largest trucking companies fell 19 percent in the first quarter, with highe

Officials with companies listed as having the nation's largest underfunded pension plans said Thursd

UNICAFE LOWERS FORECAST FOR BRAZIL'S COFFEE CROPSANTOS, Brazil - Unicafe SA, one of Brazil's

U.S. exporters are uncertain the Soviet Union's bid for wheat under the export bonus program will b

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More than 150,000 Americans aboard cruise ships returning from Alaska this summer are going to find

Net earnings climbed 11 percent during the first quarter at Expeditors International, even though th

J.C. Penney Co.'s traditional Asian suppliers are heading south. Rising wage rates and labor

The U.S. dollar was mixed Thursday, as attention focused on the Swiss franc, which continued to be t

Soviet trading companies have no system to pay their bills since the central clearing bank doesn't w

Total sales in Japan of U.S. beef products next year are expected to soar by nearly 50 percent to ab

Arbitration Day '90. May 11. New York. Forum held by Society of Maritime Arbitrators Inc. Hilton Hot

0.1 PERCENT INCREASE EXPECTED IN PRODUCER PRICESU.S. producer prices are expected to show a

PAN AM SETTLES SUIT OF LOCKERBIE FAMILIESThe families of ground victims of the terrorist bom

MITTERRAND PROPOSES EUROPEAN CONFEDERATIONFrench President Francois Mitterrand Thursday prop

WHAT'S THE POINT of changing the police force if the rules are going to remain the same? That's prec

Gasoline prices could rise by up to 2 cents in coming weeks, but increases in refinery operations an

ARCO, TEXACO PLAN ARCTIC EXPLORATIONJUNEAU, Alaska - Atlantic Richfield Co. and Texaco Inc.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PORT AUTHORITIES (Washington) - Jean C. Godwin was named director of governm

1317 (May 10, 1990) Previous day - 1321 The Baltic International Freight Futures Market in L

CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC RIM (San Francisco) - This unit of the University of San Francisco named sev

BACKGROUND: The United States and the Soviet Union are the first- and third- largest economies in th

Suppliers of the following items seek U.S. importers/distributors. Interested parties are asked to c

Pacific Rim economic growth should weaken this year from the 1989 pace, which itself represented a t

"Greed" is the main ingredient in the increasingly common, sometimes devastatingly expensive insurer

EPOXY PLASTICIZER Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Co. Thursday said the price of its Fl

Taiwan might have to change its tack of fighting inflation by tightening money supply since the effo

VENEZUELAN OFFICIAL ATTACKS LENDING RULESCARACAS, Venezuela - Tough conditions attached to l

President Hosni Mubarak said Thursday that 18 months of bargaining have yielded agreement between Eg

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX RISES IN W. GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - West Germany's consumer pr

The cost of paying wages to unemployed New York area dockworkers jumped 13 percent in the 12-month r

There is little chance of any significant reduction in U.K. interest rates for some time to come, th

Bay Ship Management Inc. will operate and maintain the Navy's fleet of eight fast sealift vessels un

Coca-Cola Co. intends aggressively to build "flourishing businesses" in Eastern European countries b

Cash-flush South Korean and Taiwanese industrial investors were among the many who cheered Costa Ric

LABOR EXPECTS RULING ON DISPUTE IN RAIL SALERailroad labor officials expect a court ruling

TRUCK SHIPPERS ARE REACTING with glee as the Interstate Commerce Commission drops plans toallow moto

Heavy flooding through Oklahoma and Arkansas continues to keep barge traffic off the 450-mile naviga

The Export-Import Bank and the Agency for International Development are expected to unveil today a p

Surely Malcolm Forbes, the late publisher of Forbes magazine (a.k.a. The Capitalist Tool), didn't co